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Thursday, August 30, 2012

For Franki...


You’re under no obligation to fulfill some version of you that I’ve created.  That’s my job.  You’re off the hook for ever needing to live up to some expectation that I have of you.  That’s up to me as well.  I hold you not responsible to answer to me or to validate me or to please me.  All of that, also up to me.  You are free.  I want nothing from you and want everything for you that you want for yourself as you define it.  My greatest value to you is to hold you in your highest, not only for your benefit but mostly for my own.  And to my alignment I hold true.  I am devoted to my alignment.  

I wrote this with Franki as my focus, and realized that this applies to anyone I love, know, or interact with.....

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